CATSKILL+HUDSON, New York—To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage up the river that now bears his name, the Thomas Cole National Historic Site and Olana State Historic Site are hosting exhibitions devoted to the artists intimately connected with that body of water. "River Views of the Hudson River School," at the Thomas Cole House, in Catskill, New York, from May 2 through October 31, contains around 15 paintings by some of the most celebrated figures to participate in America’s first major art movement, including Cole, Jasper Cropsey and Sanford Robinson Gifford. Across the river at Olana, the home of Frederic Edwin Church, in Hudson, several of that artist’s never-before-shown works, such as his snow-covered scenes The Hudson Valley in Winter from Olana and The Winter Twilight from Olana, both circa 1871, can be seen in "Glories of the Hudson: Frederic Edwin Church’s Views from Olana." Drawings by his contemporaries Arthur Parton, Lockwood de Forest and Charles de Wolf Brownell are also on display.

"River Stories" originally appeared in the May 2009 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's May 2009 Table of Contents.